The Round House is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1995. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Round House
- WRENN ID
- upper-balcony-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1995
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Round House, Legh Road, Knutsford, WA16 8LP
- OS grid reference
- SJ 757 778
- Coordinates
- 53.29691, -2.36549
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Round House is a house built around 1900 by Richard Harding Watt, showcasing Edwardian Free style architecture. It features a round tower facing the garden, which is connected to a rectangular block that faces the street. The garden entrance has a pedimented doorway accessed by steps, topped with an irregular parapet. There is a three-storey block that extends beyond the main structure, displaying irregular window arrangements with one and two lights, some featuring heavy stone lintels, and an irregular embattled parapet. The ground floor and first floor of the tower have paired windows that are not aligned. The tower projects from the corner of the main block, which is further defined by a projecting square bay window. The main entrance is located on the northern side, flanked by paired Ionic pilasters beside the paired doors. To the right of the doorway, there is a round-arched stair window. The interior has not been inspected. This house is part of a notable series of buildings constructed on Legh Road under the patronage of Richard Harding Watt, including The Old Croft.
Local climate
The Round House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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